00:00I want to talk about something that I really love about the genre, about horror,
00:03is that it's in perpetual renewal and people love it.
00:07How do you explain that this is perpetual renewal,
00:10this constant evolution and the success that goes with it?
00:12I think the horror genre is such a great genre for us to hang
00:17a lot of what's happening in the world within it, right?
00:19So you can answer a lot of social issues,
00:21but you use the genre as a disguise to kind of hide the social issues
00:25you want to talk about and to sort of react to what's happening in the world.
00:30You look at all the great horror movies that have come before us,
00:33you know, at different era, different period of time,
00:36and they all are a reflection of the period that the movies are made in.
00:40I think there's a catharsis.
00:42I think that when you, the horrors of the world,
00:44when they can be seen in a way that's totally controlled,
00:47you can walk out of the theater.
00:49It's somehow, there's a, there's a, it makes you feel,
00:52even though it sounds strange, it makes you feel safe.
00:55And I think when you can control the scares,
00:59as opposed to in the world where you can't control them,
01:01there's something comforting about that.
01:04All right, The Mummy now.
01:06Rank your top three Mummy movies before this one.
01:09The original.
01:12First one, 1932, did I get a rank, 32?
01:14I own it on, I own it on Super 8.
01:16I can project it on Super 8, it's amazing.
01:17For me, it's Hammer Horrors.
01:23Christopher Lee and Peter Cushion,
01:25the very first Mummy from them.
01:27I like Brendan Fraser's The Mummy too, okay?
01:30So I like that one.
01:33Every generation, that's what we've done.
01:35Also, shout out to Bubba Hotel.
01:40Yes, Campbell is in.
01:41That is a great movie.
01:47But the thing is that with Mummies,
01:48it's fun, it's adventure and everything,
01:50but it's not really scary.
01:51This one is terrifying.
01:54Who thought that we could really scare people with Mummies?
01:58Part of the aspiration for Jason and myself was,
02:01you know, we want to play with this particular IP,
02:04this particular brand,
02:05this character that's been around for a long time
02:06through many different versions of it,
02:08but we want to do a really scary version of it.
02:16I love a challenge as a storyteller or a filmmaker.
02:18My previous movie,
02:19I'd always harbored an ambition to make an Evil Dead film
02:22and I got that opportunity.
02:23Whereas I wasn't wandering around,
02:25you know, like in the forest in Ireland thinking,
02:27when will I get my chance to make a Mummy movie?
02:29Until these guys got in touch with me
02:31and it was a really interesting proposition,
02:33which I was like, you know what?
02:36We could make the scariest one ever.
02:37Like, we have the opportunity to do that.
02:39And for me, just the basic,
02:41forget about movies,
02:42but the concept of things that are buried,
02:44I'm always attracted to,
02:45like hidden secrets,
02:46even on a metaphorical level.
02:48The fact that in this story,
02:49the family aren't even fully talking about
02:51whose fault it is
02:51or where the guilt lies
02:52is also a buried secret,
02:54just like this thing that gets returned.
02:56So it felt like a powerful monster
02:58and a powerful force
02:58that we could,
02:59or at least,
03:00you know,
03:01put our best foot forward
03:02in creating what I always want to do,
03:04which is a pretty crazy,
03:06entertaining rollercoaster ride of a movie.
03:08Well, the last thing,
03:09are you guys ready for the Mummy 2,
03:103, 4,
03:11the Mummy Awakened,
03:11the Mummy Future?
03:12Yes, we are.
03:13Because I am.
03:15That's what we love to hear.
03:17I think you always just try
03:18and make the best movie you can,
03:19you know,
03:19and if the audience respond,
03:21we're here.
03:22We'll see you next time.
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